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Components of the Application

Cover Letter

New media has been strongly associated with social media, blogs, and other information technology based content. This content is supposedly unrestricted and free. But in fact it is moderated by the medium of the internet itself, which has inherent and profound limitations. Namely, that it lacks physicality. With the advent of maker/hackerspaces and their growing prominence in communities around the world, people are integrating computers and materials to bridge the digital-physical divide and create a new media landscape that transcends digital modes of production via digital materialization, and its compliment material digitalization.

Digital materialization in the form of 3D printing, computer controlled machining, and embodied computing (robotics) has become less expensive and more accessible due to decreasing hardware costs and software that essentializes the process of production into an intuitive activity. Reduced costs and increased ease of use equalizes access to the technologies that are shaping our future, which gives opportunities to people irrespective of class, race and gender to learn and participate in creating in new mediums.

Material digitization is the compliment of digital materialization. It entails mapping the attributes of an object into a computer model. This representation of material objects in digital form allows for their collaborative and distributed alteration and reproduction. Reproduction and alteration are central to creativity in the context of new media and art in general.

Eugene Maker Space (EMS) is part of a worldwide social movement of makers and “Maker Spaces” – facilities established to enable the community to have access to tools and the technologies which are revolutionizing society. EMS provides a workspace, tools, equipment, and the knowledge of its members in order to create a community of collaboration and hands-on learning. EMS has 3D printers available for use in our space, and many of our members have constructed 3D printers and have expertise in 3D modeling and printing.

With the support of the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, the Eugene Makerspace proposes to hold a series of seminars, presentations, demonstrations, and workshops focused on 3D printing, 3D scanning, and technological literacy; where technological literacy encompasses new media literacy, the amplification of action via cognitive extensions, e.g., computers, cell phones, etc. (ubiquitous computing), and empowerment through the use of free and open source software and hardware. EMS is requesting $10,000 to produce these classes, but we have the flexibility to reduce our course offering if the award amount is lower.
Applicant Contact Information:Weston Turner: (541) 870-5693wstnturner@gmail.com687 McKinley Street Suite #2Eugene, Oregon 97402

Description of Project

Our intended goal when teaching the courses outlined below is to not only teach about the technologies but to reduce perceived barriers to using advanced technology. Including barriers that may be due to class, race, or gender by providing both instruction and hands-on education to students in disadvantaged schools and to the community in general through our Makerspace. This will be accomplished by providing a series of courses on 3D modeling, scanning, and printing. The courses will cover the basics of creating 3D models using open source software, plus training on use of consumer grade 3D printers, and scanners. Including printing of student’s models.

Preparing a model for sculpting, Intro to brushes, Managing resolution

Goal model a Organic shape

Intro to 3D printer kits, and or print to order shops.

Comparison between in house and outsource Printing

In house printing

DIY Printer categories:

FFD / FFF Fused Filament Deposition / Fabrication

DLP: Digital Light Projection, a form of...

SLA: Stereolithography

Overview of parts of printers, Hot ends, actuators, mechanical parts.

Overview of software tool chains.

Outsourcing

Overview of options, Pinoko, and Shapeways.

Material options, design rule checks.

Tool chains used by popular companies.

Scanning Classes

Intro to 3D scanning, I

Types of scanners:

ToF (Time of Flight)

Structured light

Imaging Trigonometric

Stereoscopic

Talk about examples of each.

Intro to scanner tool chains, goal is to scan and clean up a small object.

3D Scanning II.

Build and use your own DiY Scanner.

Two three hour classes.

Workshops on Digital Materialization.

Intro to digital materialization with applications.

Intro to functional representation

Comparison to older modeling techniques with pros and cons.

Advanced 3D modeling using Frep

Electronics Fabrication.

Intro to Soldering

Build a simple kit while learning how to solder.

We can also mentor a class of motivated students who bring their own project ideas.

The target audience is the population of Eugene,Oregon in general but especially women, minorities, and low income individuals who may otherwise lack access to these technologies. Participation will not be limited based on any demographic criteria. Our intention is to do some outreach to the 4J title 1 schools. We are working with Raquel Gwynn to bring our classes to one of the BEST, School Plus, or Enrichment Classes programs. For these programs we would have to travel to and set up our gear at the schools. Other talks and classes could to be in our Makerspace.

The courses will be taught mostly by members of Eugene Maker Space with expertise in the relevant areas, and we will also bring in some outside speakers for more general talks on a range of subjects. There are no co-sponsors for this project.

Depending the the awarded grant, the class schedule would be flexible, weekdays for the school kids, and weekends for the general Eugene population. Based on the funding level we could do fewer or more classes. It would be about $1000 per three hour class. The long range goal of Eugene Makerspace is to build up our facilities to support an ongoing series of workshops and classes bringing access to new technologies and tools to the community. Our hope is that a portion of the grant money can be used towards infrastructure and tools in support of this mission.

The idea is to have a session of classes during a month or so, with time allotted between sessions to incorporate improvements based upon student feedback. The first Session will be scheduled for August 2014, the second for October 2014, and the third for February 2015. Classes will be held at the EMS shop. Pre- and post- assessments will be given to the participants to measure learning outcomes. Anonymized data on those outcomes will be published to the EMS website at the conclusion of the project.

Publicity will consist of newspaper advertising, online advertising, and outreach efforts to local schools.

● HTML5 & Javascript programing creating an extensiveMicrosoft Compiled HTML Help system for a plugin to theRhinoceros® 3D modeling system; the plugin is a volume-based modeling extension for the creation of both organic and mechanical objects that are always watertight and ideal for 3D printing.

● AutoLISP programming to create 3D models of all standard bolts / custom fasteners, subsequently converting the LISP programming to a database spreadsheet and HTML5 program. This is intended as a custom fastener system, part of a new paradigm for rapid application development for direct 3D printing.

● Spreadsheet programing for later conversion to HTML5 browser application for a CAD mechanical package.

● Founder of the Computer Arts Laboratory (CAL): defined educational policies, research goals and ethics for undergraduate and graduate students. Each student was encouraged to create his own syllabus much in the style of Stanford's system. Students were also encouraged to form MIT type teams to solve computational engineering problems.

● Director of CAL: responsible for acquisition and maintenance of all laboratory equipment.

● Negotiated independent funding from local, national and international sources. Awarded multiple grants from the Fukushima Prefecture, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, US National Science Foundation.

● Supervised thirty eight undergraduate and graduate CAL students in their individual computational research, the submitting of the research to appropriate publications, and the organization and presentation of their thesis for graduation.

Computer Aided Design Consultants, System Analysis for CAD development in engineering, architectural, and manufacturing applications. First in field to write a program to make a line tangent to two circles, published in the Catalyst, CAD magazine. AutoDesk / AutoCAD gold dealer. Applied CAD as a turn key systems house guaranteed hardware, software and client applications by creating custom programing and the client’s first models.

Clients / Projects:

● Johnson Controls - PC based CAD work stations for designing control systems. Researched and demonstrated that AutoCAD software programed with AutoLISP could calculate the size of pipes and valves, create a Bill of Material (BOM) and flow diagram.

Education

1964/67 - School of the Art Institute of Chicago / Apprentice to the Conservator

Chicago, Illinois, USA

1968/74 - BA/MFA (Masters of Fine Art) - San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco, California, USA

1973/75 - Masters Work in Psychology/Art Therapy - John F. Kennedy University

- have owed 4 home built and open hardware 3D printers – 3 Fused Filament

- have model objects for projects that were designed to be 3D printed for a variety of deposition printers and one DLP resin printer machine (both professional machine and hobbyist machines) with real world specifications using Blender and other open source software requirement for printing using Blender, Gimp, and Inkscape

- participated in several board games competition designed with real world

- designed objects to be cut on a CNC laser cutter and CNC routers using Inkscape

Individually developed anautonomously navigating robot that incorporates a variety of sensors and controllers to navigate in unstructured outdoor environments, avoid obstacles, and perform visual object recognition. Met design goals by employing elements of software and electronics engineering, control theory, and machine learning. Used robot platform for a thesis on the effectiveness of time-series artificial neural networks applied to ground based vehicle obstacle avoidance.

Lead a team of developers, as part of a software engineering course, in creating aGPS cue-sheet generation program, which leverages Google's reverse geocoding and static maps APIs, and Microsoft's .Net Framework. Maintained project version control using the Subversion distributed version control system.

Volunteer Activity:

Mentored the Churchill High School Robotics Team in preparation for the annual Robothon robotics competition held in Seattle WA. Taught students object oriented programming and approaches to program design and system architecture.

Clif Cox

Bachelor of Science The Evergreen State College. June 1983 Major areas of concentration: General computer science, Theoretical computer science, Artificial intelligence, Dynamical systems, and Freshman engineering.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Community Outreach

EMS

December 2010 to Present

Co-founded Eugene Maker Space, Its mission is to foster a collaborative environment wherein people can explore and create intersections between technology, science, art, and culture. Worked tirelessly on it's formative documents such as Articles, and Bylaws, and eventually became the secretary of the Board of Directors.

Kernel Hacker

(Self employed)

April 2007 to Present

Debugged and cleaned up kernel code for a small embedded device. Primarily in the memory allocation and garbage collection areas. Wrote device drivers, and ported over a filesystem among other things.

Entrepreneur Sysadmin

(Self employed)

September 2004 to June 2008

Started a small spinoff web hosting company to hostEPUDs customers. Did research on current market, hardware, software, and services to build an attractive, cost effective, and reliable hosting site.

Wireless Networking Specialist

(Self employed)

March 2003 to September 2004

Worked as an independent researcher and entrepreneur to design and implement the San Francisco free wireless network (SFlan). Nodes were based on Single board computers, and 802.11b cards. SFlan has grown to about 40 nodes. Here are themain page, andnetwork map.

Wireless Networking Specialist

ITU

March 2002 to July 2002

Worked as an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) consultant in Bhutan to design and implement a wireless Voice over IP system as a pilot project for Bhutan Telecom. Evaluated network performance and stability. The report can be found here:http://www.bhutan-notes.com/clif/

Wireless Networking Specialist

UNDP

March 2001 to June 2001

Worked as a United Nations Volunteer (UNV) in Bhutan to demonstrate the feasibility of using wireless networking technology to bring communications services to remote areas. Including using wireless VoIP to provide phone service. Also promoted Linux as an appropriate server platform.

Unix and Networking Specialist

(Self employed)

February 2000 to March 2001

Provided Wireless Internet connectivity to events using a Tachyon.net satellite base station and Aironet 802.11B gear. As a partner in a web co-operative I administered the web server and set up various ecommerce web sites. Worked with other clients to spec and set up Unix server solutions for them.

Database and System Administrator

University of Oregon

June 1998 to February 2000

Engineered the porting of the Zebra fish genetic database from Illustra to Informix. This involved a large perl program to convert the data and web page code to Informix syntax. Purchased servers and RAID arrays Configured the Solaris OS, Database, and web servers. Wrote various perl scripts to automate the configuration of the DB servers and easily bring up multiple instances. Administered the database, Unix systems, and other servers involved in our site.

Project Manager

Chambers Communications Corporation

April 1996 to October 1996

Managed the creation and deployment of the new ISP arm of this large cable company. Areas of responsibility: General hardware and software system design including, hardware specs and cost. Guiding selection of ISP services and software packages. LAN and WAN design. Design of NOC. Design of POPs. Helping with Marketing plan and pricing model which was based loosely on EFN's. Coordinating customer support setup. Supervised the technical work such as equipment installation, setup, and programing.

System AdministratorOf the Eugene Free community Network

OPN

October 1992 to February 1997

Started EFN on a Sun 3/160 Under a stairway with one phone line, Now located at LCC DTC using several Sun SPARCs with 250 lines and about 7000 users. Purchased and installed hardware, network connections, and most application software. We currently are a ISP for POP sites in Medford, Rosburg, Cottage Grove, and Klamath Falls. Duties included planning for system growth, adding and maintaining servers and other network hardware. Automated many administrative tasks with perl scripts. coordinated with other system administrators in the configuration and maintenance of their networks which are served by OPN.

Design Engineer

Zetron

October 1990 to August 1992

Hardware and software design and implementation for various communication products.

Project Budget and Amount Requested

This is the rough amount requested per each three hour class. Approximately half the classes will be at Middle schools so there will be more preparation, travel, setup and teardown.

Supporting Materials

UofO SPICE Science Night

EMS being a non-profit has a decent track record of community outreach. Here are a few examples.

Several EMS members attended the SPICE Science Nights held at the University of Oregon. This event was geared towards young children. Members set up a small table showcasing a few member projects. These projects included a 3D printer, Lock pick box, and a home made vortex cannon.

Eugene Public Library

On February 3, 2013, six members from EMS went to the Eugene Public Library to host a fun event for children ages 3-7. We thought that building and launching paper rockets would be a great event for this age group. It's also relatively inexpensive for us to host since we already have two available rocket launchers and the rockets themselves are made from just computer paper and masking tape. Mark and Taper helped teach people how to build the paper rockets. Once the rockets were constructed, the kids could take them over to Bob and Cord who would get the rocket launcher setup. A few strokes of the bicycle pump was enough to send the rocket flying across the room towards the garbage can at the other end. There were a few mishaps of failing rockets, but that's part of the fun and the learning experience. A few people managed to hit the targets. All in all, people seemed to have a great time.

We also brought a few other toys for the attendees to check out and play with. Rick was working the makerbot 3D printer, printing whistles and other fun objects. It's great to see that both adults and kids as young as a few years old are both interested in seeing how the printer works. The 3D printer always draws interest and it's a great way to get people's attention and teach them the basics of how the machine works. James brought a home built hexapod robot and let the kids control it via laptop. They had a lot of fun making it walk around, dance, etc. Bob brought his Blinkenlights project, which was an attention getter for sure. Who doesn't love blinking LEDs?

Eugene Mini Maker Faire

EMS has worked with The Science Factory in both 2012 and 2013 to hold Eugene's first and second annual Mini Maker Faire. The original Makerfaire is held annually in San Mateo, California and is often considered to be the world's largest show and tell. The Mini Maker Faire aims to showcase local talent in creativity, ingenuity, science, technology, art, and similar. EMS had one of the largest booths at both faires, showcasing activities like paper rocket launchers, paper airplane launchers, lock picking tutorials, 3d printing, and more. Our intention was to get people of all ages involved in making things, whether it be something as simple as paper airplanes, or as complex as a 3D printer. We hope to work with The Science Factory again in 2014 to host the third annual Eugene Mini Maker Faire.

Punkin' Chunkin' Contest

On November 23, 2013, Eugene Maker Space held its first ever punkin' chunkin' competition at The Science Factory! It was such a fun event with a fantastic turn out. We had five teams enter the pumpkin chunking contest, with a 6th last minute entry. The last entry was a much smaller machine that threw apples instead of pumpkins. This machine was measured but competed in it's own "apple class". It was much smaller than the other chunkers but it was no less impressive. All of the teams put a lot of effort into their machines and it was fantastic to see the different types of machines. There were three trebuchets, a mangonel, and a three armed slingshot. They all performed fantastically. The competition had three heats. Each team got to fire their chunkers one time per heat. The furthest distance out of all three heats was the one that was counted for the contest results. We had a great turn out of competitors, volunteers, and spectators, even considering the cold weather. We look forwarding to host this competition annually.

Notes:

Details:

Workshops or Classes?

Be more clear about where the lectures are held

how many lectures per cost.

how do approach issues of race gender or class?

How do we include Democracy? , "Media and Democracy"?

Use MOOCs or the like in our outreach. (New Media)

Hold some at schools? bring some lectures to the target groups.How are we going to hit the target audience?

Low level workshops are one or two very long days.Higher level classes are over several weeks.

6000 for more workshops and some fundamental class to get through part of a curriculum.10000 follow entire track intro plus a little hands on plus workshops then classes.

theory-practice. build the bridge between both worlds. don't limit one group to just one end of the spectrum.bring knowledge base to disadvantaged folks.

Possibly approach girl scout troops to address gender issues

Saturday workshops have a list of ongoing classes would help bring people in.Safety checks and equipment to help.

Raquel GwynnKelly MS and Madison MS. one or a series.Put school plus coordinator. Kristina Jameson:

4:30 to 5:30 enrichment classes.How many clsasses

Flyers

Schools:

Kelley and Madison middle schools various ethnicities and races. Kelley is a title 1 School.Invite parents to come. Parents welcome to come as well.

Open source online education

Software:

Trimble Sketch up

Rhino CAD. you get a demo version which will let you save something up to 25 times.

Maya?

Raquel GwynnDistrict Afterschool BEST Coordinator &Staff Development SpecialistEugene School District 4j200 North Monroe StreetOffice- 541-790-7572 Cell- 541-729-2428http://www.4j.lane.edu/instruction/title/Would be happy to add our logo as a partner.